Husbands Create 7 Hours Of Extra Housework A Week According To Study

Marriage is a beautiful thing. It brings people together under mutual admiration and love for each other. It provides both emotional and physical support during hard times. It also heaps work on you like a full-time job. And despite the weakening of traditional ideas of gender, women are still caught under the weight of this work. Studies show women take on a disproportionate amount of household tasks after marriage, while their husbands are doing less. It’s 2016. Everyone knows men and women are equally capable of running a washing machine. So why is this imbalance even a thing? Here’s what you need to know about the unequal distribution of labor in today’s (all too—) traditional marriages.

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Marriage is work. A study from the University of Michigan found that marriage unevenly distributes labor between a couple. While marriage spares an hour of chores each week for men, women pick up more household labor. Seven hours more, to be exact.

Kids tip the scale. Young single women did the least amount of housework at 12 hours per week, while married women in their 60s and 70s did nearly twice as much as that. Women with more than three children spent 28 hours a week on combined household tasks.

Time are changing. In 2005, women committed only 17 hours a week to the same tasks, while did 13 hours. This shows progress from generations before, but women still do more than men.